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AMC 9

SES Americom's AMC-9 (ordered as GE 12 by GE
Americom) was constructed on Alcatel's highly reliable Spacebus-3000B3 platform – over 30 spacecraft based on this platform are in service.

The spacecraft features twenty-four 36 MHz C-band transponders and twenty-four 36 MHz Ku-band transponders, providing service into the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean from 79º W orbital location.

In June 2017, AMC-9 suffered a severe anomaly, which caused the satellite to slowly drift from its position at 83° west and needed the transfer of the customers to other satellites. Several fragments were observed after the anomaly. Communications were reestablished on 1 July. The operator tries to move the satellite to a graveyard orbit.